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It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's... (reddthat.com)

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, if you do silly things with JS, you generally get silly results instead of TypeErrors. I wouldn’t say that makes the language bad. It makes the language resilient to bad programming, which you’d generally want in the case of web pages.